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4TH CONGRESS OF THE SOLVAY SCHOOLS AND THEIR ALUMNI

BRUSSELS, 17 OCTOBER 2016

BUSINESS AND SOCIETYIN THE DIGITAL AGE

Programme of the day

Jean TIROLELaureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2014

Carlo d’ASARO BIONDOPresident EMEA Strategic Relationships at GOOGLE

Günther H. OETTINGEREuropean Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

Arnaud de PUYFONTAINECEO at VIVENDI

Pierre-Dimitri GORE-COTYHead of operations EMEA at UBER

Professors at the Solvay Schools:

Pieter BALLON and Mathias DEWATRIPONT

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Dear Madam, Dear Sir, Dear Alumni,

As you may already know, Ernest Solvay did not only found the “Solvay Schools”, he also created institutes in natural and social sciences and launched in 1911 international congresses in the fields of physics and chemistry gathering leading figures and one or more Nobel Prize winners in these disciplines.

Back in 2005, Gilles suggested to Solvay Schools Alumni to organize similar events in the fields of business. Today you are attending our sixth edition.

Numerous objectives are met through our congresses amongst which:- To highlight Solvay Schools Alumni’s capacity to gather both internationally renowned speakers

and business related individuals in Brussels, capital of Europe;- To bear high the colours of our Solvay Schools;- To address topics that link business, economy and society, hence that influence the business as

well as our politics;This while generating a financial surplus that is split between the funding of:- The association which itself finances a chair at the schools level as well as supports many of their

activities always looking at empowering the Alumni network;- Our endowment that will finance events organized in partnership between our association and

the Schools, strictly dedicated to teaching of business, management and economics.

We are proud and profoundly pleased to announce that this congress has also created the opportunity to offer both Schools’ master students a special lecture by professor Jean TIROLE.

This is what our Alumni association stands for: support to the Schools, offering their students exceptional experiences and giving back to society… Not forgetting to maintain the Solvay Schools Alumni spirit, to reinforce the Solvay Schools and their Alumni network, encouraging them to create a virtuous circle to the benefit of all parties and society.

In this regard it is essential that our congresses not only gather Alumni, but as many people from different horizons as possible. Today offers us the opportunity to thank all of you warmly for your presence.

Last, but not least, it is our honour and great pleasure, on behalf of our association to thank our speakers Carlo d’ASARO BIONDO, Arnaud de PUYFONTAINE, Pierre-Dimitri GORE-COTY, Günther H. OETTINGER, Jean TIROLE as well as our colleagues, professors Pieter BALLON and Mathias DEWATRIPONT.

We are already looking forward to seeing you again in late 2018 for our next congress.

Thankfully, friendly and sincerely yours,

Gilles SAMYN Pierre GURDJIAN, President

Special thanks :- To the team of volunteers without whom this congress simply would not have taken place: thank you Alexandra, Fabienne, Laetitia, Marie, Michaël, Nicolas, Sophie ;- To the Solvay students for supporting the team during the congress ;- To the sponsors, whose names appear at the back of this program, for their generous support.

Gilles SAMYN

Pierre GURDJIAN


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Joël BRANSON

Bruno van POTTELSBERGHE

Dear Madam, Dear Sir, Dear Alumni,

It is our great pleasure to be part of and contribute to this fourth big congress, organized by you as SOLVAY SCHOOLS ALUMNI. This event is unique in Belgium, not only because of the excellence of the program and its speakers, but even more so because it is initiated and set up almost completely by our Alumni association.

Of course, this happens in close and friendly collaboration with the two Solvay Schools, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. We as deans of these two schools are proud to count on such dynamic and ambitious Alumni.

We thank in particular the former Chairman of our Alumni association, Gilles Samyn. Gilles is the inspirator of the idea to organize on a regular basis this type of high-level scientific meetings, in the spirit of our founder Ernest Solvay who, in the first part of last century, brought to Brussels scientific stars like Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. It is this inspiration that has made possible the presence today with us of an extremely distinguished set of speakers. We are extremely grateful for their presence and their decisive contribution to this congress. We are also extremely grateful to you who, individuals as well as guests of corporations, have made sure to be part of our audience today.

We are also particularly pleased with this event because it corresponds so well to the values our Schools want to aim for: excellence, relevance, breadth and internationalization. Excellence is obvious when one looks at the quality of our international speakers. Relevance is also obvious: the economic and social consequences of digitalization are huge. And it is fair to state that everybody will be affected, individuals, organizations and countries worldwide. This is why a broad set of experts from different disciplines and countries has been mobilized in order to analyze the interaction between its various facets: governance, regulation and management.

Finally, this congress is a reminder of the value of unity: just like the Alumni association is stron-ger thanks to its inclusion of both Solvay ULB and VUB graduates, so do our Schools benefit from a strong cooperation, in teaching as well as in research projects. It is our firm intention to keep developing them in the future, and we know we can count on support: Many, many thanks for your continuing precious help!

Joël BRANSON Bruno van POTTELSBERGHEDean of the Faculty Economic and Social Dean of the Faculty Solvay Brussels School ofSciences – Solvay Business School, VUB Economics and Management, ULB


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Keynote speakers will address questions on what business and society face in the « digital age ».

Jean TIROLE

Jean Tirole is chairman of the Foundation JJ Laffont-Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), and scientific director of the Institute for Industrial Economics (IDEI), University of Toulouse Capitole. He is also affiliated with MIT, where he holds a visiting position, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHHESS), and with the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), which he helped found in 2011.He is ingénieur général des ponts, des eaux et des forêts. Before moving to Toulouse in 1991, he was professor of economics at MIT. He was president of the Econometric Society in 1998 and of the European Economic Association in 2001.

Jean Tirole has given over eighty distinguished lectures and has published about two hundred articles in economics and finance, as well as 11 books. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1981, engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1976) and from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (1978) and a “Doctorat de 3ème cycle” in decision mathematics from the University Paris IX (1978).

He holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from the Free University in Brussels (1989), the London Business School (2007), HEC Montreal (2007), the University of Mannheim (2011), the Athens School of Business and Economics (2012), the University of Rome 2 (2012), Hitotsubashi University (2013), Université de Lausanne (2013), EUI Florence (2015) and Luis U. Rome (2015). Among other prizes and honors, he received the Yrjö Jahnsson prize of the European Economic Association (granted every other year to an economist under the age of 45 who has made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to economics in Europe) in 1993, the gold medal of the CNRS in 2007 (the second economist, after Allais in 1978, to receive this medal, attributed to one researcher every year since 1954), and was the inaugural winner of the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in economics, finance and management in 2008. He received the CME-MSRI award and the Levi-Strauss prize in 2010 and the Ross prize in 2013. He is the laureate of the 2014 Nemmers prize in economics and received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in the same year. He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993) and of the American Economic Association (1993). He was elected to Allais’ chair at the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 2011.


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Carlo d’ASARO BIONDO

Carlo D’Asaro Biondo began his career as a consultant at Macfin Management Consultants. He joins KPMG Consulting Italy in 1994 where he becomes Chief Executive Officer France in late 1998. Following the sale of KPMG Consulting, he joins Unisys as Vice President and MD EMEA Telecommunications and Media at the end of 2001.

In February 2004, he joins AOL Europe as Senior Vice President in charge of strategy. A few months later, he is appointed CEO of AOL France, and moves on to become CEO of AOL Europe in 2006.

In early 2007, Carlo becomes CEO of International Operations at Lagardère Active Digital before joining Google in July 2009 where he manages operations in Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa for five years. Since January 2015, Carlo is President Strategic Relationships for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Google.

Born in 1965, Carlo has dual French and Italian nationality. He graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome (Italy) and lives in Paris with his wife Nathalie; they have five children between them.

Günther H. OETTINGER

Günther H. Oettinger is European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society since 1st November 2014. On 10 February 2010 he became European Commissioner for Energy and from 1st July – 31st October 2014, he was Vice-president of the European Commission. From 2005-2010, he was Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) and, since 1984, a member of the regional Parliament (“Landtag”). He was the leader of the CDU Landtag group from January 1991 to April 2005. A lawyer by training, Günther H. Oettinger became actively involved in politics during his adolescence. He is a member of the Federal Executive Committee and of the Steering Committee of the CDU Deutschlands.


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Arnaud de PUYFONTAINE

Mr. Arnaud de Puyfontaine was born on April 26, 1964 in Paris, France, and is a graduate of the ESCP (1988), the Multimedia Institute (1992) and Harvard Business School (2000). In 1989, he started his career as a consultant at Arthur Andersen and then worked as a project manager at Rhône-Poulenc Pharma in Indonesia. In 1990, he joined Figaro as Executive Director. In 1995, as a member of the founding team of the Emap group in France, he headed Télé Poche and Studio Magazine, managed the acquisition of Télé Star and Télé Star Jeux, and started up the Emap Star Division, before becoming Chief Executive Officer of Emap France in 1998.

In 1999, he was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Emap France, and, in 2000, joined the Executive Board of Emap Plc. He has led several M&A deals, and concomitantly, from 2000 to 2005, served as Chairman of EMW, the Emap/Wanadoo digital subsidiary.

In August 2006, he was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Editions Mondadori France. In June 2007, he became General Head of all digital business for the Mondadori group. In April 2009, Mr. Puyfontaine joined the US HEARST media group as Chief Executive Officer of its UK subsidiary, Hearst UK. In 2011, on behalf of the Hearst group, he led the acquisition of 102 magazines from the Lagardère group published abroad, and, in June 2011, was appointed Executive Vice President of Hearst Magazines International. In May 2012, he joined the Board of Directors of Schibsted. Then, in August 2013, he was appointed Managing Director of Western Europe.

From January to June, 2014, Mr. Puyfontaine was a member of Vivendi’s Management Board and Senior Executive Vice President in charge of its media and content operations. Since June 24, 2014, he has been Chief Executive Officer. He is Vice-Chairman of the Management Board of Telecom Italia, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Universal Music France, Non-Executive Chairman at Gloo Networks and Chairman of the French-American Foundation.

Pierre-Dimitri GORE-COTY

Pierre-Dimitri is originally from Paris, and studied Engineering at Ecole Centrale and Columbia University.

Pierre started his career at Goldman Sachs in London, on the firm’s proprietary trading desk which he left in 2010 to start a hedge fund.

Passionate about the tech industry and convinced about the need to bring better transportation options to people, Pierre decided to join Uber in September 2012.

He currently oversees Uber’s European, Middle East and African operations.


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Professors at the Solvay Schools will present their vision on the subject and ask a question to each of the keynote speakers.

Pieter BALLON

Pieter Ballon (1972) is Professor in Communications Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

He is also the Director of the imec-smit research group, which specialises in Living Lab research, as well as policy and market analysis of the digital media, digital health and digital cities markets.

He is the scientific lead on Living Labs at imec, one of the world’s leading hardware and software R&D organisations worldwide.

Pieter Ballon holds a PhD in Communication Sciences, and an MA in Modern Socio-Economic History. Previous to his current profession, he was senior consultant and team leader at TNO in the Netherlands.

He has coordinated various national and international innovation programmes on Living Labs, Smart Cities, and Business Models for new media services and platforms.

Since 2009, Pieter Ballon is the international Secretary of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). He has also co-founded the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) network, and the Belgian Smart Cities Academic Network (B-SCAN).

He currently holds the academic Chair on Smart Cities at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Mathias DEWATRIPONT

Mathias Dewatripont was appointed Executive Director at the National Bank of Belgium in May 2011, where he is responsible for prudential policy and financial stability. In this capacity, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank and of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). He co-chairs the BCBS Research Task Force.

He holds a BA (1981) and MA (1982) in Economics from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, 1986. Since 1990, he has been Professor of Economics at ULB. He was part-time Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Research Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) between 1998 and 2011. Fellow of the Econometric Society, laureate of the 1998 Francqui Prize and of the 2003 Yrjo Jahnsson Prize for Economics, he was elected President of the European Economic Association for the Year 2005. He was a founding member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (2007-2012) and is a member of the Académie Royale De Belgique and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. He was also a nonexecutive Director of CGER-Bank (1992-99) and President and then Dean of the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management of ULB (2009-2011).

He has widely published in the areas of contract theory, organization economics and banking and finance. His books include The Prudential Regulation of Banks (with Jean Tirole, MIT Press 1994), Contract Theory (with Patrick Bolton, MIT Press 2005), Higher Education in a Globalized World: Governance, Competition and Performance (edited with Françoise Thys-Clément and Luc Wilkin, Editions de l’ULB 2008), and Balancing the Banks: Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis (with Jean-Charles Rochet & Jean Tirole, Princeton University Press, 2010).


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Programme of the day

17:00 WELCOME AT SQUARE(to 17:45)

18:00 ACADEMIC SESSION(sharp) J. TIROLE Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences

in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2014

C. d’ASARO BIONDO President EMEA Strategic Relationships at GOOGLE

G. H. OETTINGER European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

A. de PUYFONTAINE CEO at VIVENDI

P.-D. GORE-COTY Head of operations EMEA at UBER

19:40 QUESTION TIME

LED BY PROFESSORS OF THE SOLVAY SCHOOLS:

P. BALLON Director of the research group SMIT

(Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication) at the VUB

M. DEWATRIPONT Director at the NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM

20:45 COCKTAIL

21:30 DINNER

23:00 NETWORKING


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Special Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

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With the support of our Global Sponsors

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